Moldova Day 3: The visits begin Monday 08 October

Moldova Mission Trip Day 3 Monday 08 October

Today started very differently to yesterday with a strong wind and heavy rain, we made our thoughts plain to Graham about his ‘wish i could see it raining ‘speech yesterday while we had breakfast. Cereal, and toast, with tea and coffee. We had arranged to meet Mark at the bottom of the hill at 9, despite having discussed how none of us liked to be late, our driver Julian had to come and get us. 

We spent the morning preparing to go to Brinza in the south to see our linked church  and meet the pastor. The others who were going out on house visits and so spent time filling gift bags with suger, rice and oil. Myself and Ailsa were leading an after school club with about 25 kids of very different ages (6-14)

The church in Brinza was a lovely building and easily the cleanest in the village. 

We meet the pastor Vasilli who seemed incredibly nervous about our visit, which must have been like a school ofsted inspection for him. I soon realised that kids are the same everywhere and after some initial shyness we got some good banter going. 

We are looking forward to meeting more kids and have lots of meets in the program!! We left Brinza and travelled back to base. This was a shame because we felt that we had barely met them and now we were rushing away after only a few hours. We ate a rather splendid Spag Bol that eve. The group was then dropped back toour host in Chicani where we were releaved to find that the dog Jack Jack was back home safely ( I had accidentally let him out when we left in the morning and cudn't find him anywhere 2 get him back inside).

Mat